SPECIAL MISSION
ATTEMPT TO SINK TIRPITZ
RUGBY, July 24
One of the most dramatic incidents of the war—the first attempt to sink the German battleship Tirpitz—has been related. ■ A small Norwegian fishing smack, with two submarine torpedoes slung under her keel and a British naval officer hidden in a secret bulkhead and four other naval personnel and an Army sergeant, concealed beneath a pile of peat on deck, sailed into Trondheim Fiord one bleak November day over three years ago. Her mission was to sink the Tirpitz with "chariots,' the two-man human torpedoes. Twice the vessel, which had a crew of three Norwegians, was stopped at German control points, but a minute search failed to reveal her cargo or her British personnel. When she 'was almost within sight of the Tirpitz a sudden storm burst over the fiord and the chariots were sunk.
Abandoning their craft, the nine men swam ashore, and made their way to the Swedish frontier. Eight of them escaped to safety, but the ninth was shot by a German frontier patrol — 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 5
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177SPECIAL MISSION Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 5
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